Picketing "Desperate Housewives"
According to Louis-Dreyfus -- who is married to writer Brad Hall -- the crew's choice to honor the picket line to work on "The New Adventures" was all but made for them. The multi-camera half-hour comedy is totally dependent on on-set writers. So as soon as the strike was announced, "Warner Bros. wisely understood and immediately shut everything down," she said.
"It doesn't put me in a precarious posotion at all," Louis-Dreyfus said. "A memo went out from the studio saying we had to show up for work -- it gave us a list of things we had to do and told us how to cross the picket line --but we haven't gotten any threats for not doing what it said."
"Christine" costar Wanda Sykes added: "It's not only a strike in town. There's some bad flu going around. I might have to stay home."
For Louis-Dreyfus, the writers' strike augurs what's in store for the Screen Actors Guild in coming months.
"As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, I am here to show my solidarity and support for the writers guild," she said. "The outcome of this strike is going to decide what we do in the next couple of months."
-- Chris Lee
